Pretreatment plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) levels and the outcome of thrombolysis with streptokinase in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

abstract：:To investigate the significance and mechanism of dilatation of the left ventricular cavity on dipyridamole thallium-201 imaging, we performed both dipyridamole thallium-201 imaging and dipyridamole radionuclide angiography on 83 patients with known angiograms. The dipyridamole/delayed ratio of the left ventricular dim...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Takeishi Y,Tono-oka I,Ikeda K,Komatani A,Tsuiki K,Yasui S

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the incidence and clinical significance of postoperative pericardial effusion (PE), the presence of PE was evaluated by echocardiography, 1 and 2 weeks postoperatively, in 50 patients after insertion of a valve prosthesis and in 100 patients after coronary bypass surgery (50 patients receiving a combina...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ikäheimo MJ,Huikuri HV,Airaksinen KE,Korhonen UR,Linnaluoto MK,Tarkka MR,Takkunen JT

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to assess current practice patterns in pharmacotherapy for congestive heart failure at an academic medical center and to analyze temporal trends in management of congestive heart failure from 1990 to 1995. Records of all patients discharged from the hospital in 1990 or 1995 with a pri...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rich MW,Brooks K,Luther P

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Externally recorded STI were compared with invasively determined EF in 10 normal subjects and 86 patients with various forms of chronic heart disease. From phono-, apex-, and electrocardiograms and carotid pulse tracings, recorded without rigidly controlled conditions (postabsorptive state, fixed time of day, exclusio...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Sutton R,Hodd WP Jr,Koch GG

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempted to define the role of endothelin (ET) in preconditioning. We previously showed that ET Is produced during myocardial ischemia and reperfusion. Because both preconditioning and ET act through protein kinase C, ET could play a role in preconditioning. Dogs were randomized to three groups subjected t...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Erikson JM,Velasco CE

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with kidney failure have a heavy burden of coronary artery disease. The results of preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic measures developed in nonuremic populations cannot automatically be extrapolated to this unique group of patients. METHODS AND RESULTS:Articles were reviewed if they contained ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Vaitkus PT

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by cardiogenic shock (CS) is associated with high mortality. Early coronary revascularization improves survival, but the optimal mode of revascularization remains uncertain. We sought to characterize practice patterns and outcomes of coronary artery bypass grafting (CAB...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Smilowitz NR,Alviar CL,Katz SD,Hochman JS

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination therapy with mexiletine (MEX) and quinidine (Q) may be more efficacious than monotherapy with either drug in suppressing ventricular arrhythmias, but its effects on ventricular performance are not known. Thus, right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and wall...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Sheldon RS,Duff HJ,Mitchell LB,Wyse DG,Manyari DE

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In older patients (70 ± 7 years) with chronic well-compensated heart failure with preserved ejection and controlled blood pressure, 6 months treatment with aliskiren (direct renin inhibitor) showed non-significant trends for modest improvements in peak exercise oxygen consumption (14.9 ± 0.2 mL kg-1 min-1 versus 14.4 ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Upadhya B,Brubaker PH,Morgan TM,Eggebeen JD,Jao GT,Stewart KP,Kitzman DW

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine the relationship of adverse diastolic remodeling (ie, worsening diastolic or persistent restrictive filling) with infarct scar characteristics, and to evaluate its prognostic value after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). BACKGROUND:Severe diastolic dysfunction (restr...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Nguyen TL,Phan J,Hogan J,Hee L,Moses D,Otton J,Premawardhana U,Rajaratnam R,Juergens CP,Dimitri H,French JK,Richards D,Thomas L

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The contemporary magnitude and prognostic implications of complete heart block (CHB) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are unknown. As part of a community-based study of patients hospitalized with AMI in the Worcester, MA, metropolitan area, changes over time in the incidence rates of CHB co...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Nguyen HL,Lessard D,Spencer FA,Yarzebski J,Zevallos JC,Gore JM,Goldberg RJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The manner in which concealed anterograde impulse penetration may affect retrograde atrioventricular nodal conduction was studied systematically in 12 patients with intact ventriculoatrial (VA) conduction. After the last beat of a basic atrial drive (A1), an extrastimulus (A2) was introduced 20 msec inside the effecti...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Lehmann MH,Mahmud R,Denker ST,Tchou PJ,Dongas J,Akhtar M

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent reports, human toll-like receptor (TLR) 8 mediates the antiviral response by recognizing single-stranded RNA. The inflammatory response against enteroviral (EV) RNA replication may play an important role in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The purpose of this study was to determine whether TLR8 was ex...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Satoh M,Akatsu T,Ishikawa Y,Minami Y,Takahashi Y,Nakamura M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The potential exists for microcirculatory impairment during rotational coronary atherectomy (RA) due to embolization of plaque debris, platelet aggregation, or vasospasm. This prospective randomized pilot study aimed to confirm favorable effects of nicorandil during RA compared with verapamil. METHODS:We ra...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Matsuo H,Watanabe S,Watanabe T,Warita S,Kojima T,Hirose T,Iwama M,Ono K,Takahashi H,Segawa T,Minatoguchi S,Fujiwara H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite clopidogrel therapy, patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stenting are at risk of recurrent coronary events. This could be partly explained by a reduced efficacy of clopidogrel to inhibit platelet aggregation, an ex vivo defined phenomenon called clopidogrel nonresponsive...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Snoep JD,Hovens MM,Eikenboom JC,van der Bom JG,Jukema JW,Huisman MV

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the long-term angiographic outcome of balloon angioplasty by comparing original and follow-up target coronary narrowing. Rather than using restenosis to determine outcome, as in most angioplasty studies, we took an unusual approach and analyzed outcome in terms that are commonly used in progression and re...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rozenman Y,Gilon D,Sapoznikov D,Lotan C,Mosseri M,Hasin Y,Gotsman MS

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a major cause of sudden death in young athletes and one of the most common inherited cardiovascular diseases, affecting 1 in 500 individuals. Often viewed as a disease of the cardiac sarcomere, mutations in genes encoding myofilament proteins are associated with disease p...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Landstrom AP,Adekola BA,Bos JM,Ommen SR,Ackerman MJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether serum uric acid, which is a marker of impaired oxidative metabolism, might correlate with left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). BACKGROUND:Uric acid levels, which are frequently elevated in patients with CHF, correlate with leg vas...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Cicoira M,Zanolla L,Rossi A,Golia G,Franceschini L,Brighetti G,Zeni P,Zardini P

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of vascular closure devices (VCDs) for the reduction of access site complications following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains controversial. Patients undergoing primary PCI for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are at high risk of femoral artery complications. A ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Prada-Delgado Ó,Estévez-Loureiro R,Calviño-Santos R,Barge-Caballero E,Salgado-Fernández J,Piñón-Esteban P,Vázquez-Rodríguez JM,Aldama-López G,Flores-Ríos X,Soler-Martín MR,Vázquez-González N,Castro-Beiras A

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meta-analyses of major outcome trials have demonstrated that the benefits of antihypertensive treatment for reduction of the incidence of stroke are entirely consistent with the benefits predicted from epidemiologic data; however, there remains a shortfall in the expected reduction of the incidence of coronary heart d...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Meredith PA

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antihypertensive effects of the renin inhibitor enalkiren were compared with those of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor enalaprilat in 17 hypertensive patients (14 white, 3 black; mean age 57 years), whose renin systems had been stimulated by diuretic pretreatment. Patients were studied on 3 separate in-...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Neutel JM,Luther RR,Boger RS,Weber MA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular ejection fraction and regional wall motion were assessed by multigated equilibrium radionuclide ventriculography within 24 hours of onset of first acute transmural myocardial infarction (MI) in 32 patients. Abnormal left ventricular wall motion was noted in all 16 patients with anterior infarction and...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Pichler M,Shah PK,Peter T,Singh B,Berman D,Shellock F,Swan HJ

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic total occlusion (CTO) recanalizations remain extremely challenging procedures. With improvements in technology and techniques, success rates for recanalization of CTO continue to improve. However, the clinical benefits of this practice remain unclear. The aim of the study was to determine the effecti...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Joyal D,Afilalo J,Rinfret S

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) reduces angina and extends time to exercise-induced ischemia in patients with symptomatic coronary disease. One- and two-center studies and a retrospective case series reported that EECP improves myocardial perfusion in stable angina pectoris. We sought to critically...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Michaels AD,Raisinghani A,Soran O,de Lame PA,Lemaire ML,Kligfield P,Watson DD,Conti CR,Beller G

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrocardiographic QT interval, with a wide variety of practical and theoretic applications in medicine, pharmacology, and cardiology, is critically dependent on heart rate as expressed by cycle length (RR). To account for this and permit intraindividual and interindividual comparisons of changing QT intervals, ...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Spodick DH,Rifkin RD,Rajasingh MC

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) experience poor outcomes after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We sought to compare clinical characteristics of advanced CKD, dialysis, and non-CKD patients hospitalized with AMI. METHODS:This observational study used record-linked data from the US Renal Data Sy...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Shroff GR,Frederick PD,Herzog CA

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Experimental studies suggest that metabolic myocardial support by intravenous (IV) glucose, insulin, and potassium (GIK) reduces ischemia-induced arrhythmias, cardiac arrest, mortality, progression from unstable angina pectoris to acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and myocardial infarction size. However, tr...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Selker HP,Beshansky JR,Griffith JL,D'Agostino RB,Massaro JM,Udelson JE,Rashba EJ,Ruthazer R,Sheehan PR,Desvigne-Nickens P,Rosenberg YD,Atkins JM,Sayah AJ,Aufderheide TP,Rackley CE,Opie LH,Lambrew CT,Cobb LA,Macleod BA

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell adhesion molecules are key regulators of atherosclerotic plaque development, but circulating levels of soluble fragments, such as intercellular adhesion molecule (sICAM-1) and vascular cell adhesion molecule (sVCAM-1), have yielded conflicting associations with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (AS...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Ren HY,Khera A,de Lemos JA,Ayers CR,Rohatgi A

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress has been identified as contributing to the development of cardiovascular disease. The pathophysiologic link between stress and disease still remains unclear. Because experimental stress testing in the laboratory permits the examination of the underlying mechanism for stress-induced blood pressure, analyses of c...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Rüddel H,Langewitz W,Schächinger H,Schmieder R,Schulte W

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated resting heart rate (RHR) is known to be associated with reduced survival but inconsistencies remain, including lack of significance in most studies of healthy women, lack of independence from systolic blood pressure (SBP) in some, and the suggestion that RHR is merely functioning as a marker of phys...

journal_title：American heart journal

authors： Cooney MT,Vartiainen E,Laatikainen T,Juolevi A,Dudina A,Graham IM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00